Chapter 4 Case 4-1. Vershire Company Questions: 1. Outline the strengths and weaknesses of Vershire Company’s planning and control system. Vershire’s planning system Strengths: When formulating the sales budget, divisional managers are required to predict market conditions and capital expenditures. The frocasting is done at the corporate level and is then sent to the divisional managers for fine-tuning. Corporate controllers visit each plant for half a day prior to the final submission
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concerned with the acquisition and use of funds by a business firm. In other words, FM is planning, directing, monitoring, organizing, and controlling of the monetary resources of an organization. FM scope may be defined in terms of the following questions:1. How large should the firm be and how fast should it grow? 2. What should be the composition of the firm’s assets? 3. What should be the mix of the firm’s financing?4. How should the firm analyze, plan, and control its financial affairs?Functions
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The assets of the company can be classified into the two heads, namely the current assets and noncurrent assets. Current assets refers to the assets that will provide benefits to the firm not more than one year or the assets that are expected to be converted into the cash into one year (Current Assets, 2013). Current assets will include the cash and other assets that are likely to be converted into the cash or more likely to be used up within one year or one operating cycle, whichever is greater
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Chapter 4 Case 4-1. Vershire Company Questions: 1. Outline the strengths and weaknesses of Vershire Company’s planning and control system. Vershire’s planning system Strengths: When formulating the sales budget, divisional managers are required to predict market conditions and capital expenditures. The frocasting is done at the corporate level and is then sent to the divisional managers for fine-tuning. Corporate controllers visit each plant for half a day prior to the final submission
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Business plan * Operational plan The strategic plan is developed for long-term planning and covers a period of about five years. The strategic plan specifies the missions and goals of the organisation including decisions on how resources, both capital and human, will be allocated to meet organisational goals. A business plan sits between the highest-level plan (the strategic plan) and the operational plan. A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals and objectives that are
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SECOND EDITION I/1ANAGEMEIVT AND POLICY James C.Van Horne \ STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRENTICE-HALL INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY F I NANCI AL M A N A G E M E N T A N D POLICY, 2nd EDITION James C. Van Horne © 1971, 1968 by PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEW O O D CLIFFS, N.J. All rights reserved. No part of this book m ay be reproduced in any form or by any m eans without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress C atalo g C ard No.: 71-140760
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Ethics in Accountancy Case Analysis Case 2-5: Eating Time 1. Frame the ethical issue: Should Kevin Lowe “eat time” by taking work home and not record the time? 2. Gathering all the facts: * Kevin Lowe is a new staff accountant at Stooges LLP * Kevin took 50% longer to complete audit work than his predecessor. * Stooges LLP is on a fixed budget for these audits. * Bo Chambers and Moe Chambers are partners supervising Kevin. * Bo and Mo explicitly say that they do not
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Reem.emshaya. 1-To deliver financial statements to any chosen organization cooperation for three (or more ) fiscal years. 2-discuss the information shown in the financials over the years focusing on sources of finance been used importance cost, any alternatives recommended. Financial Statement Analysis Tools:- Here we take a brief discussion about reading and understanding and interpretation of the Financial Consolidated statement of financial position and the list income- for the purposes
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Markets Hypothesis 5 Present Value 6 Capital Budgeting 7 Valuation Under Uncertainty: The CAPM 8 Valuing Risky Cash Flows 9 Introduction to derivatives. 10 Pricing Derivatives 11 Pricing of Multiperiod, Risky Investments 12 Where To Get State Price Probabilities? 13 Warrants 14 The Dynamic Hedge Argument 15 Multiple Periods in the Binomial Option Pricing Model 16 An Application: Pricing Corporate Bonds 17 Are capital structure decisions relevant? 18 Maybe capital structure affects firm value after all
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Management Dr. Paweł Krzyworzeka 2015/2016 Grades There are two components: Group presentations (10 points) • We are going to discuss six cases (sessions no. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9) • All groups have to read carefully all six cases and be prepared to give an oral presentation (ad-hoc, at least two times during our course) based on assigned questions (see the table below). • Group can earn up to 5 points for a presentation • Groups are fixed and preassigned (see the list) • Do not prepare
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